Improve tarball distributions
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Key: HADOOP-7371
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-7371
Project: Hadoop Common
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: build
Environment: Java 6, Redhat 5.5
Reporter: Eric Yang
Assignee: Eric Yang
Hadoop release tarball contains both raw source and binary. This leads users
to use the release tarball as base for applying patches, to build custom
Hadoop. This is not the recommended method to develop hadoop because it leads
to mixed development system where processed files and raw source are hard to
separate.
To correct the problematic usage of the release tarball, the release build
target should be defined as:
"ant source" generates source release tarball.
"ant binary" is binary release without source/javadoc jar files.
"ant tar" is a mirror of binary release with source/javadoc jar files.
Does this sound reasonable?
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